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Leadership

The CSSB works as a cooperation of the participating partner institutions without its own legal identity.

CSSB Directorate

The CSSB Directorate is composed of the principal investigators appointed by the CSSB partners and meets approximately every six weeks. The CSSB Directorate is chaired by the Scientific Director. In addition, two Deputy Directors are appointed by the Directorate.

The current Scientific Director is Prof. Dr. Holger Sondermann, group leader at Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) and Kiel University. He was elected for the term January 2024 to December 2025.

The Deputy Scientific Directors are Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald, group leader at Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV) and Universität Hamburg and Prof. Dr. Charlotte Uetrecht, group leader at Universität Siegen and associated with LIV and DESY.

CSSB has a rotating directorship and each CSSB Scientific Directors serves a two year term. Typically a CSSB PI will first serve as the in-coming Deputy Director for two years, then become the Scientific Director for two years and finally serve as the out-going Deputy Directors.

CSSB Office
The CSSB office is in charge of all organizational and administrative matters related to CSSB.

List of CSSB Office members and contact information.

CSSB Council
All CSSB partner research organisations are represented with voting rights in the CSSB council. Delegates of the governmental agencies funding CSSB are invited as guests to the council meetings. The CSSB research director reports to the council and participates at the meetings of the CSSB council. The council meets once a year.

The main tasks of the CSSB council are: overseeing the CSSB research activities, making decisions where interests, especially those of a financial nature, of CSSB partners are directly involved, approving the CSSB annual budget, appointing the CSSB research director.

The present chair of the CSSB council is Prof. Dr. Blanche Schwappach-Pignataro, the Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE).

CSSB Scientific Advisory Board
The CSSB scientific advisory board advises the CSSB directorate and council on all relevant activities, particularly on its research portfolio and future plans. It meets at least once a year.

Members of the CSSB Scientific Advisory Board:

- Dr. Ilaria Ferlenghi, GSK Vaccines

- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Förster, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Edda Klipp, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

- Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

- Dr. Olivier Neyrolles, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, France

- Prof. Dr. Poul Nissen, Aarhus University, DANDRITE

- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wai-Hong Tham, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia